2016 BSFA Shortlist
The shortlist for the 2016 British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Awards has been announced:
Best Novel
- Daughter of Eden, Chris Beckett (Gollancz)
- A Closed and Common Orbit, Becky Chambers (Hodder & Stoughton)
- Europe in Winter, Dave Hutchinson (Solaris)
- Occupy Me, Tricia Sullivan (Gollancz)
- Azanian Bridges, Nick Wood (NewCon)
Best Short Story
- “The End of Hope Street”, Malcolm Devlin (Interzone 9-10/16)
- “Liberty Bird”, Jaine Fenn (Now We Are Ten)
- “Taking Flight”, Una McCormack (Crises and Conflicts)
- “Presence”, Helen Oyeyemi (What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours)
- “The Apologists”, Tade Thompson (Interzone 9-10/16)
- The Arrival of Missives, Aliya Whiteley (Unsung Stories)
Best Artwork
- Cover for Ian Watson’s The 1000 Year Reich, Juan Miguel Aguilera (NewCon)
- “Transition”, Tara Bush (Black Static 7-8/16)
- Cover for Jenni Fagan’s The Sunlight Pilgrims, Suzanne Dean and Kai & Sunny (William Heinemann)
- Cover for David L. Clements’s Disturbed Universes, David A Hardy (NewCon)
- Cover for Lavie Tidhar’s Central Station, Sarah Anne Langton (Tachyon)
- Cover for Alastair Reynolds’s The Iron Tactician, Chris Moore (NewCon)
Best Non-Fiction
- “THEN: Science Fiction Fandom in the UK 1930-1980“, Rob Hansen (Ansible Editions)
- “Boucher, Backbone and Blake: The Legacy of Blakes Seven“, Erin Horáková (Strange Horizons 8/22/16)
- “Breaking the Cycle of the Golden Age: Jack Glass and Isaac Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy”, Anna McFarlane (Adam Roberts: Critical Essays)
- “New Model Authors? Authority, Authordom, Anarchism and the Atomized Text in a Networked World”, Paul Graham Raven (Adam Roberts: Critical Essays)
- “100 African Writers of SFF“, Geoff Ryman (Tor.com 7/6/16, 11/1/16)
- “Introduction to The Big Book of Science Fiction“, Ann & Jeff VanderMeer (The Big Book of Science Fiction)
The awards will be voted on by members of BSFA and the British Annual Science Fiction Convention (Eastercon). The winners will be announced at the 68th Eastercon, Innominate, to be held April 14-17, 2017 at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole Hotel in Birmingham, UK. For more information, see the BSFA website.
